Vietnam Coal Supplies to Domestic Market Up 7.1% to 16.3MT in Jan-Oct

12:48:27 PM | 11/5/2009

Vietnam’s coal industry supplied 16.3 million tons of coal to the domestic market in the first ten months of this year, up 7.1% from a year earlier.
 
Of the total volume, coal supply to cement production rose 10.5% from a year earlier to 3.22 million tons and to fertilizer sector up 8.6% to 500,000 tons.
 
Meanwhile, coal supply to electricity sector fell 2.6% from a year earlier to 5.1 million.
 
The country shipped abroad 19.22 million tons of coal in Jan-Oct. (Trade Information)